Confessions of a Gender Defender

Confessions of a Gender Defender

Author: Randi Ettner

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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A remarkable book! In turn, heartbreaking and hilarious. -- Tim Kazurinsky, Saturday Night Live, screenwriter of About Last NightThis is a firsthand look at the fascinating and controversial phenomenon of transexualism -- men who want to be women and women who want to be men. Gender is the most misunderstood topic of our time. The patients introduced in this book all fight quiet battles -- at home and in the workplace -- with what has been called the uninvited dilemma of being born into the wrong body. These intimate and engaging stories directly address this fascinating and controversial phenomenon.


Confessions of a Gender Defender

Confessions of a Gender Defender

Author: Randi Ettner

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A remarkable book! In turn, heartbreaking and hilarious. -- Tim Kazurinsky, Saturday Night Live, screenwriter of About Last NightThis is a firsthand look at the fascinating and controversial phenomenon of transexualism -- men who want to be women and women who want to be men. Gender is the most misunderstood topic of our time. The patients introduced in this book all fight quiet battles -- at home and in the workplace -- with what has been called the uninvited dilemma of being born into the wrong body. These intimate and engaging stories directly address this fascinating and controversial phenomenon.


Readings in Multicultural Practice

Readings in Multicultural Practice

Author: Glenn C. Gamst

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008-02-21

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1412965179

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Readings in Multicultural Practice features a wellspring of seminal research studies critical to understanding the complex issues surrounding mental health care and diversity. Providing a wealth of in-depth research into delivering culturally competent care, this rich anthology examines general issues in multicultural counseling competence training; ethnic minority intervention and treatment research; and sociocultural diversities.


The Transgender Studies Reader

The Transgender Studies Reader

Author: Susan Stryker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 1135398844

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Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.


Transgender Emergence

Transgender Emergence

Author: Arlene Istar Lev

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1136384952

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Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender identity formation. Specific sections of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families address the needs of gender-variant people as well as transgender children and youth. The issues facing gender-variant populations who have not been the focus of clinical care, such as intersexed people, female-to-male transgendered people, and those who identify as bigendered, are also addressed. The book examines: the six stages of transgender emergence coming out transgendered as a normative process of gender identity development thinking "outside the box" in the deconstruction of sex and gender the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as the convergence, overlap, and integration of these parts of the self the power of personal narrative in gender identity development etiology and typographies of transgenderism treatment models that emerge from various clinical perspectives alternative treatment modalities based on gender variance as a normative lifecycle developmental process Complete with fascinating case studies, a critique of diagnostic processes, treatment recommendations, and a helpful glossary of relevant terms, this book is an essential reference for anyone who works with gender-variant people. Handy tables and figures make the information easier to access and understand. Visit the author's Web site at http://www.choicesconsulting.com


CBMCS Multicultural Reader

CBMCS Multicultural Reader

Author: Glenn C. Gamst

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008-02-19

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1412959462

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Features a wellspring of seminal research studies critical to understanding the complex issues surrounding mental health care and diversity. Providing a wealth of in-depth research into delivering culturally competent care, this rich anthology examines general issues in multicultural counseling competence training; ethnic minority intervention and treatment research; and sociocultural diversities. Key Features and Benefits Features carefully selected research articles that are accessible to and practical for mental health practitioners and students Provides critical background research that sprang from rigorous research methods and multivariate statistical processes Opens with the key article that details the development of the ground-breaking 21-item California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale


When The Opposite Sex Isn't

When The Opposite Sex Isn't

Author: Sandra L. Samons

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1136914862

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When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person and for those who seek to relate to her. Written in both an enlightened and a reader friendly style interspersed with vignettes, When the Opposite Sex Isn’t offers a combination of insights and common sense understanding of the diversity of the human condition together with concepts of gender and sexuality that expand the horizons of any mental health professional, regardless of the clinical focus of his or her work. Samons challenges concepts once taken for granted, thus providing stimulus for creative thinking which many lay readers will also find interesting and entertaining, whether or not they are (thus far) acquainted with a transgender person.


The Tao of Gender

The Tao of Gender

Author: Tarynn M. Witten

Publisher: Green Dragon Books

Published: 2002-04-25

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0893343544

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The concept of gender is one that is static for many and malleable for some. Many mistakenly interchange gender with sexuality. Some argue that it is cultural/environmental, while other say that it is genetic. What is gender? The answer continues to elude. Tarynn Whitten’s introspective work seeks to explore the mystery of gender identity through an integration of various principles of Taoism. The Tao of Gender grew out of a personal need to provide peaceful reading for those who seek “The Way” on their journey through life, in a world where transgenderism and transsexuality are all too often misunderstood. The author hopes to help those on this journey to find balance by tapping into their infinite capacity for resourcefulness and wisdom within. What readers are saying This book is a gift of inspiration and insight for those who experience gender fluidity or want to explore the nature of trans-genderism. Tarynn artfully weaves the personal and the philosophical, creating a tapestry of gender and Taoism with threads of self-discovery and renewal.—Randi Ettner, Ph.D., author of Gender Loving Care; and Confessions of a Gender Defender


Transgender Voices

Transgender Voices

Author: Lori B. Girshick

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1584656832

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A revealing look at the lives and perspectives of transgender and gender variant people, based on 150 personal interviews


Transgender Subjectivities

Transgender Subjectivities

Author: Jack Drescher

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-10-22

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781439807019

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Gain an in-depth understanding of the issues, concerns, and problems faced by transgender individuals Transgender Subjectivities is a comprehensive guide for understanding the issues and concerns of the emerging transgender phenomenon. As transgender individuals become more “out” in society, the need to understand their concerns, the problems they face, and the resources available to them becomes rapidly more acute. This book offers a diverse yet coherent view of this ever-expanding field. It provides an overview of transsexual manifestations designed to expose therapists as well as the general public to this actively expanding field. In Transgender Subjectivities, experts in transgender studies examine historical, theoretical, clinical, and subjective aspects of the transgender experience. The contributors include some of the most respected and experienced clinicians and scholars in the field, such as Aaron H. Devor and Anne A. Lawrence, as well as several cutting-edge contemporary theorists, and a number of eloquent transsexual writers—including Dallas Denny and Griffin Hansbury—giving this book a wide and varied perspective. Topics addressed in Transgender Subjectivities include: the origin of the “transsexual phenomenon” issues of guilt in the process of self-acceptance of gender nonconformity personal accounts of individuals who have coped with the experience of transgenderism the impact of transsexual transition on the children and partners of transitioning individuals the various manifestations of—and responses to—transsexuality resource and psychotherapeutic guidelines for specialists as well as non-specialists and much more! Featuring a variety of voices from case studies and theoretical analyses to personal experiences and reflections, Transgender Subjectivities renders a difficult and expansive subject comprehensible to the novice, while a